Greek designers join the fray

Nassos K. over at Crazymonkey has a whole slew of posters created by Greek designers about the current rebellion in Greece. Though the Paris '68 posters played a more central, visceral, and social* role to that revolt, designers are still voicing their outrage and ideals through the same medium; and as the current crisis has not yet played out, political poster design may yet have a larger role before all is said and done.

Not all the posters are particularly good from a design perspective (some are simply interestingly laid out lyrics to Rage Against the Machine songs, and others are great conceptually but have horrible follow through, like the "disarm police now" poster), but there are some real gems in this collection.

*Cutting out linoleum in a big room full of other revolutionaries, with a hundred hands feverishly cranking on the presses is a lot different from being hunched over a copy of Photoshop or Illustrator. As the social, communal aspect of design production is no longer a necessity, I wonder how this is affecting political designs -- and the politics of designers. Sounds like a good idea for a book!